- That John Allen Muhammad, nee John Allen Williams and
several aliases, was known to the U.S. Government long before the "sniper"
shooting spree is fast becoming apparent. There are just too many instances
where authorities should have investigated, arrested and prosecuted him.
Even the criminal falsification of Muhammad's seventeen-year old companion's
immigration status by a Seattle INS official is not a risk bureaucrats
ordinarily take without approval or direction from higher sources.
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- When Muhammad (using the name of Thomas Alan Lee) was
arrested in Antigua in March, 2001 for his involvement in providing false
i.d. and other documents for entry of illegal aliens into the United States,
he was held for two days and then allowed to "just walk out of the
police station and disappear." Was the two day delay due to Antiguan
authorities communicating with U.S. authorities about Muhammad/Williams/Lee?
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- Back in the U.S. Muhammad/Williams was detained in Florida
when intercepted with forged credentials for at least two false identities.
Again he was released without charges being made. Later in Tacoma, he and
17 year-old Malvo were arrested for shoplifting. When he failed to show
for his court hearing a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. For some
unexplained reason, the warrant was not entered into the FBI national data
base.
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- In March of 2000, Muhammad's ex-wife obtained an "Order
of Protection" against him making it illegal for him to own or possess
a firearm. Two months later he sold a Bushmaster rifle (similar to the
one used in the sniper killings) to a gun shop from which he had earlier
purchased it. That is the proof of the weapons violation for which a warrant
was issued by a Tacoma magistrate (Monica J. Benton) less than twenty-four
hours before Muhammad was arrested on October 24, 2002 (31 months after
the violation occurred). Malvo was held as a material witness.
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- The warrant was supported by an affidavit from BATF agent
Craig A. Howe. It was based in part on an interview FBI agents had conducted
with Robert Edward Holmes the previous day (Oct. 22nd). Holmes was in the
army with Muhammad (then Williams) and said Muhammad had visited him several
times in the last six months and shown him an AR-15 rifle.
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- At least two persons, months before the sniper attacks,
reported to the FBI that they suspected Muhammad might be a "sleeper"
terrorist. FBI officials say no follow up investigations were done.
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- It has not been explained how authorities made such a
quick connection to Holmes since they were said to have only identified
Muhammad as being involved with Malvo on Oct. 21st. It was Malvo's fingerprints
on a gun catalogue found at the scene of an attempted robbery and murder
in Montgomery, Alabama which were obtained at the earliest on Oct. 20th
that led to Malvo. The identification of Malvo led investigators to the
Pacific Northwest where they supposedly discovered, for the first time,
Malvo's relationship with Muhammad.
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- Also, no explanation has been offered as to how the Tacoma
warrant came to list two aliases for Muhammad in addition to John Williams
(Wayne Weeks and Wayne Weekley). The two aliases were not among those known
to Antiguan authorities. Perhaps they were the false i.d.'s Muhammad got
caught with in Florida. In any event, they likely came from a file being
kept on Muhammad/Williams.
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- Since none of the derogatory information was entered
into the FBI national data base, Muhammad and Malvo were not detained the
four times they were stopped by police during the sniper spree. But there
is another reason black males were not carefully scrutinized in the traffic
stops.
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- One of Montgomery County, Maryland Police Chief Charles
Moose's main claims to fame, both in Maryland and in Portland, Oregon when
he was police chief there, was reduction of racial profiling of African-Americans
and other minorities. As journalist Paul Sperry discloses in his copyrighted
article. "Chief Moose Cost Lives" Moose instructed officers to
search only vehicles with white male drivers. This according to a BATF
agent who was part of the force manning the blockades.
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- A look into Moose's activities and associations in Portland
raises more questions. Moose spent 27 years in the Portland Police Department
(the last six as chief). He was appointed chief in 1993 by the leftist
mayor of Portland, Vera Katz. This was shortly after earning a masters
degree in public administration and a doctorate in urban studies from Portland
State University (PSU).
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- During Moose's studies PSU was (and continues to be)
a hotbed of Islamic terrorists and Jihad propaganda. Moose figuratively
rubbed shoulders with known and suspected terrorists.during his time there.
The situation was so bad that Israel refused to allow students to accept
scholarships at PSU fearing for their safety. This according to the dean
of the department offering a Ph.D. course in terrorism which Moose took.
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- Moose had a number of confrontations with whites during
his tenure and was disciplined four times while an officer. As chief he
also had to offer an apology to a white sales clerk he had insulted. As
chief he virtually reversed the racial profiling problem into one of profiling
whites to the exclusion of blacks. Some white officers claimed they were
being discriminated against.
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- Mayor Katz also created some controversy of her own.
At a large "social" function she publicly embraced a known drug
dealer. At the function.she had barred police from being present with their
weapons. She claimed she could do that because it was a "private"
party although $50,000 in taxpayers' money had been spent for the entertainment.
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- This year Mayor Katz refused to allow her police department
to participate in the questioning of middle eastern non-citizens as requested
by federal authorities. On October 4th of this year, three would be terrorists
were arrested in Portland. They had gone to Pakistan and attempted (unsuccessfully)
to join al Qaeda and the Taliban in fighting U.S. forces. One of them,
Patrice Lumumba Ford, had worked as an intern in Mayor Katz' office in
1998 and 1999 during Chief Moose's tenure.
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- One coincidence not reported in the major media is that
Moose and John Muhammad/Williams both served in the Oregon National guard
at the same time for approximately a year. However their reporting stations
were about a mile apart and there is no known indication that the two ever
met.
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- In 1999, Moose was chosen to be Police Chief at Montgomery
County, Maryland, at least partially on the recommendation of Attorney
General Janet Reno. The NAACP had charged the county with egregious racial
profiling and Moose was brought in to correct the situation.
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- So what are we to make of John Muhammad/William's seeming
immunity from prosecution in his many brushes with the law in fraudulent
documents, shoplifting and a federal firearms violation. There are several
explanations that could explain most (but not all) of what we now know.
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- Muhammad may have been an FBI informer or CIA "asset."
That would have resulted in his name being flagged for no action by local
law enforcement and other government agencies, i.e. the INS, Customs, BATF
and others if he was detained for an apparent crime.
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- Alternatively he may actually be a terrorist with connections
in the FBI and CIA as he bragged to people in Antigua. He also could be
a double agent with ties to an organized terrorist group.
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- It seems obvious that the government knew a lot about
him before the "tips" started coming in which allegedly resulted
in his capture. Those tips are the most incomprehensible part of the whole
scenario if they actually came from Muhammad and Malvo.
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- If the anonymous phone calls we are told resulted in
the identification of Muhammad and Malvo as sniper suspects were from someone
else, that implies that the two are being framed.
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- The only physical evidence against the duo is the rifle
allegedly found in their car with only Malvo's fingerprints on it. Early
reports on the radio and television and in a NYT article by Jayson Blair
quoted police as saying no weapons were found in the car. After the car
was loaded into a closed truck and taken to the BATF laboratory in Rockville,
Maryland, the rifle reportedly was found.
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- But what about the fingerprints? First, it is curious
that Malvo's were the only prints on the rifle. That implies that the rifle
had been wiped clean of prints fairly recently. Could the fingerprints
have been planted on the rifle (and the catalogue in Alabama)?
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- In the magazine "Justice Denied" in a discussion
of fingerprinting, the following appears. "Transference of actual
prints made by real fingers, from one location to another by means of sticky
tape, is one possibility, with techniques long known to law enforcement
officers."
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- Most would be unwilling to accept that the government
would plant evidence in such a high profile case. However, we do know that
(in the past) the FBI laboratory has fabricated evidence and lied in court
about evidence. This was proved conclusively by Fredrick Whitehurst, a
FBI lab supervisor whistleblower. The FBI has lied at least seventy times
to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain search warrants.
Both the FBI and BATF lied to the Army in the Waco tragedy to obtain tanks
and in the Ruby Ridge killings lied to their own superiors and the Congress.
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- Which of these possible scenarios is most likely? You
be the judge.
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- Permission is granted to reproduce this article in its
entirety.
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- The author is a free lance writer based in Romulus, Michigan.
He is a former newspaper editor and investigative reporter, a retired customs
administrator and accountant, and a student of history and the U.S. Constitution.
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